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When the GH3 just came out, I bought it on the day of release. I have used it for weddings till the GH5 came out, and replaced the GH3 with that. For years I was one of the few people who shot weddings profesionally with GHx camera's. Also, I was one of the first people who used a Speed Booster and a Sigma 18-35. Bought both of the those in the month after their release. For years I had a bit of a 'unique' look to my films. Now it seems like 90% of the people who bought a GH5 are using it for weddings. And also use the Speed Booster and the Sigma 18-35. I guess the moment has arrived when the playing field is leveled. Like in photography, where 99% of photographers use a full frame DSLR (Canon 5Dx or Nikon Dx). The moment has come that my gear is no longer 'added value' and we're all playing the same game. I knew this moment would come. I just thought it would be a bit later when / if Canon would ever release a 5D which would actually have a good video mode.

Hmm, very intriguing camera! Especially the Quattro H version. I am looking to get into photography, mostly for model shoots. I really like filmic colors and often use Filmconvert for my video's and photo's. The thing is, I already have a GH5 and Speed Booster XL with a Sigma 18-35. So, I basically already have a very similar camera to the Quattro H. Same FOV, same lens, etc. It looks like the colors and resolution will be much better on the Sigma camera. But it is another 1300 bucks. I'm sure my GH5 would take great pics with this setup as well. Is it night an day? The Quattro seems to have about 11.6 stops of DR. The GH5 around 10.5 I believe? Is there any other camera with Sigma's sensor technology? It looks like a great device, but not thàt great

For years I have filmed weddings extensively with the GH3 and GH4. I always used the same microphone, a Shure Lenshopper VP83. Also, I have often even used the audio from the onboard mic. Especially the GH4's onboard mic's audio was great. Almost 'Zoom H1' like in nature. Now since I have the GH5, I have noticed the following. First of all, the camera records WAY louder than the GH3 or GH4. They really messed it up and I don't know why. When setting the input gain, -12 on the GH5 is the same level as 0 on the GH3 or GH4. In other words, there is no real -12 on this camera. Even -12 on the GH5 does not cut it for loud audio situations, such as receptions or parties where there is loud music. This means I will have to use the limiter which I have never used on the GH3 or GH4. Also, the Shure VP83 has a -10db setting which I have never had to use before, but now have to. Alright, so this woulnd't be so bad if it were the only problem. The real problem is that the GH5's audio circuit has WAY less dynamic range. When I am recording a speech now, the audio is usually on the limit of being loud enough, but as soon as the people start applauding it becomes so loud that it starts clipping very badly. The limiter prevents this slightly, but not completely. I have just listened to some old clips of mine shot with the GH3. Same microphone. First of all, everything sounds simply 'better' (can't really explain why) but what really stands out, is that everything sounds almost at the same level. This is because of the dynamic range. For instance, a speech and the applause after both sound almost equally as loud and none of it clips. Even loud music during evening parties sounded great on the GH3 and GH4. It was almost impossible to let the audio clip on those cams. And never used the limiter on either. So, this is pretty bad for me. I like the camera's image quality so much and I am heavily invested in this camera so I will keep using it. But this problem should be adressed. Maybe Panasonic could do something with a firmware update. Surely they can lower the input gain so that it matches the GH4. I am not so sure about the dynamic range and what can be done, but I do know that they messed it up bigtime. This won't be a problem for people who use dual audio recording, which I also do during the ceremony. But for all other live event recording where you need the camera's audio, be it with or without an external mic, it very much is. Especially because they nailed it on the GH3 and GH4. Cost saving? Or a mistake while rushing for the release? Who knows. But please Panasonic, do something.

Great! Less competition in image quality from my competitors for me! Go Canon/Nikon!

Full time wedding film producer here.

I thought it was pretty funny tbh. Also, the comparison with Kathy is not really valid as she was showing someone alive today in a horrible matter (and could be interpreted as she wanting something similar to happen to mr Trump), and this video is just about a silly eggplant. More of a parody on IS than anything else I think. But well, everyone is different

A short comedy film with the GH5. Very heavy grading, but still holds up very good IMO.

I can lower the microphone levels by -10. This is still way too loud for the music during parties. When I put the limiter as well, then it is usually just fine. Still some small distortion here and there. With the GH3 and GH4, I could just leave the mic at -20 and lower the input levels, or even take the microphone out and record with the onboard mics. I remember I put the GH3 at -8 during loud music events and it was fine. Now with the GH5, it is recording so loud at -12 that I almost can't make out anymore which song has been recorded. Just a massive track full of distortion.

Guys, I have a request. Maybe some of you are already aware of the GH5's audio problem. The camera records way to loud and even when you set the camera at the lowest input level (-12), it is at least as loud as the GH4 on level 0. I have contacted Panasonic in my country (Netherlands) about this and they have mentioned that 'if more people contact them about this problem' that they might do something about it. So, if everyone could go to the website of Panasonic and just send an e-mail about that you encountered this problem and cannot work like this, then hopefully they will release a firmware update which fixes this problem. Thank you very much!

Nope. Because my GH5 shoots 180 fps

Autofocus for video will never work for 100% of the situations. It's that simple in my opinion. And since it won't, it's better to become the master of manual focus so you will never ever have the problem of becoming dependable on autofocus, until you find yourself in a situation where it doesn't work. For instance, you're filming a wedding. You have a beautiful shot on the bride and all of a sudden her father walks in the room. You quickly zoom out to get him or them both in the frame. You want to focus on him but still keep the frame like an over-the-shoulder. How does the autofocus know what to focus on here? It doesn't know, so you have to tell it. So do you physically have to touch the touchscreen here or press some buttons to transfer the focus from one point to another? On any camera without voice-command, most likely. And are you able to do so without moving or shaking the camera and maintaining the exact frame? Not with my setup. I can however with my middle finger just slightly move the focus ring of my lens whilst holding my rig steady, and the focus peaking confirms my new focus point. 0.02 seconds of work with great results. I do not need to discuss autofocus for video ever nor while I ever rely on it for the things that I do such as weddings. 'Sorry that I messed up your ceremony, the autofocus didn't work apparently'. No. On a professional movie set with expensive props, gear and talent? Nope. As a vlogger or to hold your cat in focus while it moves towards you? Yep, might be handy. Surely there are and will be camera's who will be up to this task but so is my $150 phone. So yea, I agree with you. No perfectionist, which every cameraman or cinematographer should be, would actually care about autofocus.

Here's a nice little video I shot yesterday when I was hired to make a portret of a family. This is only the intro part of the film. All shot in 8-bit. Most of it in Full HD. I personally really like the colors of this cam and it's very gradable.

They HAVE to fix the audio input level. As it is now, -12 is like 0 or the GH4. Even when the input is at minimum level (-12), audio is still clipping when there is loud music or sound. If everyone could spam Panasonic's support with e-mails about this, that could be great.

I just came back from a wedding shoot with the GH5 and there is one thing that I'm not too happy about. With the GH3 and GH4, I could use the internal mics for the party in the evening. The loud music was picked up pretty well and I didn't disort at all so was useable. Now, the GH5. I had the audio-input at -12 db which is the lowest setting the camera does and it records fucking LOUD. All clips from the party are heavily distorted like the camera was taped onto the speakers. Now, other than turning the limiter on (which i do not like), would there be another setting that lowers the input of the audio?

I've realised that all the clips have one small problem. The first 0.5 sec or so of the clips have no audio. I have recorded the clips with an external mic attached to the cam (Shure Lenshopper). Does anyone else has this problem also? Or is this fixed already with the new firmware update?

Anyone here who edits native GH5 clips that can check for me how much RAM is used when you do a playback of the timeline with multiple tracks? I'm putting together a new Ryzen build (only CPU / MOBO / RAM, I keep the rest of my system) and trying to figure out if 16GB will be enough or if I should stretch it to 32GB.

I don't think there is any system that can playback the 10-bit files in Premiere smoothly If you ever try some 8-bit footage, let me know How do you like the Ryzen 1700 so far?

Thanks again. I don't think that's fast enough for me Unfortunately, I have the non-K version so overclocking is not really possible. My motherboard also doesn't support it. Is there anyone here with a Ryzen 1700 or higher, or an I7 7700 who can let me know how their Premiere handles multiple video tracks at the same time with native GH5 footage?

Thanks. I have tried setting the program monitor to half res (no difference) and quarter-res. That seemed to work, but it looks like crap. I have also tried to edit the same timeline with the footage copied to an SSD drive. Didn't make any difference. So I think it's not about drive speed here. So yes, probably a change of editing program (like Resolve) would solve my problems. Also, working with proxies will solve my problems. But, as I like working with native files for speed and having a strong preference for working with Premiere (I'm lightning fast with it now), I am still curious if changing to Ryzen would also solve my problems. That way I can keep my workflow exactly the same.

Thanks guys. So even an 8-core would probably still choke on the native GH5 files when having multiple clips stacked on top of each other? Thanks. Sometimes I need to make a 'same-day-edit' on a wedding shoot. This would be made from about 400 GB of all seperate GH5 clips with maybe a 2-4 hour time in duration. Do you maybe have an indication for me about how long the transcoding would take?

Hello everyone, I am currently shooting with the GH5 and mostly in 4K 150 mbps (8-bit) mode. I would really like to be able to edit the GH5 files natively (so without transcoding). My current system can do so and very smoothly, but only in very simple timelines. The moment I start stacking clips on top of each other on the timeline, playback gets choppy and laggy. My current system: i7 3770 (4 cores / 8 threads) 12GB RAM @ 1333 mhz Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB Windows 10 64-Bit Adobe Premiere CC 2017 (both installed on SSD Drive) Footage is edited from a 7200 rpm 6 TB internal drive I just did some tests by creating a timeline and adding multiple clips (3 or 4) on top of each other. Then I pressed the spacebar to play it and opened up some diagnostic apps. - CPU usage goes to 90-99% in difficult area's on the timeline with multiple clips and some effects - GPU is never used more than 50%, but mostly goes even lower when the CPU starts bottlenecking it - Memory usage is 10.5 GB at difficult area's. My total memory is 12 GB (but 1.5 GB reserved for other applications) In short, my CPU and RAM are used 90-100% on difficult timelines. To rule out the harddisk, I copied the video clips to my SSD drive. Ran the same tests, same results. So it's not the HDD and not the GPU at fault here. It seems like a CPU upgrade and more and faster RAM will definitely improve things. The question is, will, for instance, a Ryzen 1700 be able to play 3-4 clips stacked on top of each other on a timeline smoothly? If anyone could tell me their experience, that would be greatly appreciated so I know that by spending a lot of money on a better PC, it isn't just for shorter render and export times but also will provide me a smoother playback experience Thanks!

There is a 'topic' on Facebook in the GH5 user's group were many people are complaining about the camera locking up and ERASING ALL FILES ON THE SD CARD. This happened apparently already to some folks and they have no clue what happened. One person is describing this problem and he is using brand new Sandisk Extreme Pro cards with Panasonic's own batteries. The camera locked up and all files on the SD card were gone. I have asked this person which firmware he had installed but no answer yet. Anyway, is there any way we can report this 'officially' to Panasonic? I am planning to shoot weddings with this cam and this sounds very frightening. The camera locking up is one thing, but corrupting the card in the process is horribly unacceptable. Anyone else had problems like this?

I have a question for Ryzen users. I am currently using a i7 3770 and I just finished a new short film project that I shot on the GH5. I realised that I sometimes get choppy playback in Premiere CC 2017 when I have 2 or more videotracks above each other in the timeline. Especially after some effects are applied. Is your Ryzen machine capable of playing the native GH5 mov files without any stuttering when there are multiple clips on top of each other in the timeline? If yes, then it is time to upgrade Thanks

Hi Timoteo, I have the GH5 and the Speed Booster XL and have used several different lenses with this setup. The GH5 has not seen so much action yet, but that's because it's just in my posession. I have however shot with the GH3 for 4 years and during the first year I have used Samyang / Rokinon (same lenses, different name) extensively. I've owned the 16mm f2.0 /35mm f1.4 / 85mm f1.4. Mind you, I had the 'photo' versions, not the cine versions. Here is a short film I did with those lenses. I was very happy with them and I still have the 85mm f1.4. It's golden for video and I like the long focus throws of the lenses and how they look and feel. I think the only difference between the photo and cine versions is the housing and the focus and aperture rings. You can't go wrong with either I think. The only reason for selling the 16mm and the 35mm is because I mainly shoot weddings now, and I needed a zoom lens for that which became the Sigma 18-35 f1.8. I still use the 85mm often and it's teriffic! https://vimeo.com/79220862